Job Vacancy: 2 x Postdoctoral Fellowships in Ecology and Modelling

A unique opportunity exists forÂ twoÂ Postdoctoral Fellows to join CSIRO Health and Biosecurity.Â The successful applicants will work as part of a large-scale collaborative project, developing real-time pest risk forecasting tools that will be integrated into an Australian agricultural pestÂ surveillance system.

The details of the two fellowships on offer are as follows:

Fellowship 1: Focuses on the generation of models used to forecast pest phenology and population dynamics.

Find out more byÂ viewing the full position description and selection criteria here:Â Â Position description

Your duties/responsibilities will include:

Under the direction of senior research scientists, carrying out innovative, impactful research of strategic importance to CSIRO that will, where possible, lead to novel and important scientific outcomes.

Developing process-based population dynamics models of agricultural pests (arthropods or plant diseases) using a generic modelling framework, OR calibrating insect and pathogen aerial spread and survival models using a high-level modelling package.

Undertaking appropriate ecological or eco-physiological experiments to generate data to calibrate the models.

Undertaking regular reviews of relevant literature and patents.

Producing high quality scientific and/or engineering papers suitable for publication in quality journals, for client reports and granting of patents.